Blank for holding ornamental settings for draperies



(No Model.)

0-. K. BIRGE. v BLANK FOR HOLDING ORNAMENTAL SETTINGS FOR DRAPERIES, &c. No. 356,187.

Patented Jan. 18, @887.

PATENT EErcE.

GEORGE K. BIRGE, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

BLANK FOB HOLDING ORNAMENTAL SETTINGS FOR DRAPERIES, 8w.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 356,187, dated January 18, 1887.

Application filed October 21, 1 886. Serial No. 216,920. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE K. BIRGE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New 5 York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Blanks for Holding Ornamental Settings for Draperies, 850.; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such aswill enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates particularly to the means employed for securing to the walls or draperies of a room ornamental settings made in various shapes from colored glass or other materials. These settings have been secured in place for purposes of ornamentation ordinarily by means of cement, which has proved to be unreliable.

My invention is intended to overcome this obstacle; and to that end it consists of a certain fastening device, which wiil be more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows my improved device secured to the wall and ready for the reception of the setting. Fig. 2 shows in vertical central section the setting in place upon the wall. Figs. 3 and 4 are similar viewsof a modified form of fastener for securing the setting to the drapings of a window or door,

and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the fastener shown in Fig. 3 ready for securement to the drapery and for the reception of the setting.

Referring to the drawings, a is the blank,

of thin sheet metal, which forms the body of 40 the fastener. Around the circumference of this plate, which is preferably circular in form, are arranged a seriesthree or morcof peripheral prongs, a.

b is a screw or nail adapted to pass through 4 5 a central orifice in the blank a.

the face of the setting, as clearly shown in i Fig. 2. 'In this manner settings of various colors can be securely placed upon the papered walls of a room, and thus aid by their presence in giving an additional decorative effect to the designs printed upon the paper.

To secure the settings to the drapings of a window or door vfor the purposes of decoration, I have provided in place of the screw b a series of prongs, a", cut from the blank a, which, after being forced through the fabric, are turned over against the same, as clearly shown in Fig. 4, thus securing the blank aand its setting a to the draping at the point desired.

By my improved construction these settings can be quickly and reliablysecured to the walls I GEORGE K. BIRGE.

\Vitnesses:

H. S. ALWARD, V. T. MILLER. 

